What You Need to Use Chiropractor2Web
April 19, 2009
To use the Chiropractor2Web theme, you must have a WordPress blog hosted and installed on your own website. WordPress is a free, open-source blogging platform that you can install on your website.
Even though WordPress is a blogging platform, you can use to create a small business website that does not necessarily look like a blog, and has the added benefit of easy content publishing.
Note: This tutorial has been moved – you can find it here: What You Need
Installing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme – Video Walkthrough
April 19, 2009
To learn how to install the Chiropractor2Web WordPress theme, watch the video below and then read the instructions under it to review the steps.
Note: This tutorial has been moved. You can find it here: Installing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme
Chiropractor2Web Installation Basics
April 19, 2009
If you are installing WordPress and the Chiropractor2Web theme, you’ll need to know a few things about web hosting, domains, and uploading files with an FTP client.
Note: This tutorial has been moved – you can find it here: WordPress Installation Basics
Upgrading Your Chiropractor2Web Theme to v1.1
March 27, 2009
If you’ve already installed the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme, and want some of the new v1.1 goodness, here are the instructions for upgrading your current installation.
Step-by-Step upgrade instructions
- Download the v1.1 upgrade files here: Chiropractor2Web v1.1 Upgrade
- Unzip the download to a location of choice on your local computer
- You should see 4 Files (header.php, footer.php, findeus_page.php and functions.php)
- FTP into your current installation of the Chiro Wordpress Theme
FileZilla FTP Client is a good free one: Download FileZilla
- Navigate to the “themes” folder located inside the “wp-content“
- Locate and open the “chiro” Folder
- Backup your current header.php, footer.php, findeus_page.php and functions.php by adding .bak to the end of the file name. (Example header.php.bak)
- Drag and Drop the new header.php, footer.php, findeus_page.php and functions.php Files into the Folder.
The next steps are optional allowing for better display of Street, City and Zip of your Business:
- Log-in to your Wordpress Theme Admin Panel
- Click the “Chiropractor2Web Options” found under “Appearance” tab
- Update your Street, City, Zip – which is now available in 2 separate fields.
How verify that the upgrade worked
- Log in to your Wordpress Admin outlined in step 9-10 above and look for the new “City-State-Zip” option as well as a new “Feature Page 3” option found in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel.
- Also in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel, note the Google Maps iFrame section replaces the image upload for your map. Now you can insert a dynamic Google map from http://maps.google.com. Just get the code snippet from Google Maps and insert it here to add a dynamic map to your site.
- Looking at the page source of your website, you should see:
Contact me with any questions!
Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme Updated!
February 27, 2009
We’ve made several updates to the Chiropractor2Web theme based on your feedback!
Here is a rundown of the changes in this new version – V1.1
- Updated the Find Us page to use a dynamic Google Map instead of a static image
- Added the ability to change the Featured Article box just like the other two feature boxes on the bottom of the page
- Improved SEO – there were some image tags that did not have the proper ALT text and those have been fixed
- Fixed minor alignment issues on the Find Us page
- Move business address in the header from one line to two lines
Get the Download Link
To download the theme, just sign up for my email list. I will send you a direct link to download the themes, and will notify you of theme updates and theme customization tutorials as we release them. I respect your privacy and will not share your email address with anyone. And you can unsubscribe at any time.
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Once you sign up, you will receive an email with a link to confirm. This link will take you directly to the download link.
If you have already installed the Chiropractor2Web Theme
If you have already signed up and downloaded the theme, I’ll be sending an email with a link to the version 1.1 download.
Note: Do not apply this new file over an existing installation. Contact me for upgrade procedures to ensure you preserve all your customizations and business info.
If you did not get the email for some reason contact me and I’ll just send you the file directly.
Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Change The Navigation Menu
December 10, 2008
When you install the Chiropractor2Web WordPress theme, you will have five items on the navigation menu by default:
- Home – this is your home page that shows up first when somebody visits your website. You can edit the content of this page in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel in WordPress.
- About – this is a default page that WordPress adds to all new websites. You’ll want to either delete this page or change it. I usually change the title to “Meet The Doctor” and change the text to an introduction to the doctor(s) at the office, including a picture.
- Contact – This is a contact form that visitors can use to send you a message. The message will go to the email address you put in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel.
- Find Us – This is the map and directions page of your site. It also includes business hours. See this tutorial to add your own map for your business.
- Blog – This takes you to a page that lists all of the articles that you write on your website. You can remove this menu item (described below) if you do not plan to publish articles.
In addition to changing these menu items, you can easily add new items to your navigation menu. Any time you publish a new “Page” in WordPress, it will automatically be added to this menu. To publish a new page, log into WordPress, and go to the Write menu and select Page.
Whatever you put for the Title of this page will show up in the navigation menu of your site.
If you want to exclude certain pages from showing up in the navigation menu, you can do that from the Chiropractor2Web Options panel.
This is a list of all the Pages that you’ve published. You can select multiple pages to omit by holding down the shift key as you select each one.
Something we haven’t talked about yet is the difference between Pages and Posts in WordPress. Since WordPress is a platform for blogging, it gives you the ability to quickly and frequently publish content to your site.
WordPress Posts
When you write a blog entry, this is called a Post. Most blogs list the posts in reverse chronological order on the home page of the site, so that the latest ones are listed first.
In this theme, we’ve changed that so the home page is a static page that represents your business instead of a list of articles. We provide the “Blog” page in case you also want to publish articles for your visitors and patients.
WordPress Pages
In WordPress, Pages are for information that is more timeless, that you always want to display prominently on your site. In our case, examples of pages include the “Contact” form, the “Find Us” page or the “Meet the Doctor” page.
I suggest that you change the title of the “Blog” page to “Articles” and use that as an area to publish short and informative articles for your patients and visitors. You can include snippets from newsletters you may have published, or any advice or tips you are willing to share.
See the Chiropractor2Web demo for an example of a customized menu, and let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!
Announcing The Chiropractor2Web Support Forum
December 8, 2008
In addition to the Tutorials for installing and configuring the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme, we just turned on the Chiropractor2Web Support Forums.
Stop by to introduce yourself, discuss or ask your questions about the theme, WordPress or anything related to Chiropractic Website building!
Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Sidebar Widgets
December 8, 2008
The Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme is “widget enabled”, meaning that it supports WordPress widgets. Widgets can be easily added to the sidebar to add all kinds of functionality to your website.
We provide an example with the out of the box theme, and you’ll want to change it when you set it up for your practice.
To add a widget to your site, simply log into WordPress and go to the Design panel. From here, you’ll want to select the Widgets menu.
On the left of this screen you will see a whole list of Widgets available for you to add to your sidebar. You can add a calendar, links, recent posts, recent comments and many others. If you look to the right of this screen, you’ll see that there is already one widget added to the sidebar, titled “Text: Call Us Today!”
Let’s go and edit that Widget to say something about your business instead of something generic. Right now there is an image that you may want to either delete or replace with a link to your own image. And you’ll want to change the phone number and the other text in this widget. When you’re done click the “Change” button, and then “Save Changes.” The Widget on your site is now updated.
You can put any message you want in here and change it any time!
p.s. If you don’t want any widgets on your site you can click “Remove” and “Save Changes” to remove it.
Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Feature Boxes
December 6, 2008
After installing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme and entering your business information, the next thing you’ll want to do is customize the appearance of the home page.
At the bottom you’ll notice a section where you can feature pages on your site.
You’ll want to change these defaults and point them to other parts of your site like the Find Us page or a Meet The Doctor page.
To do that, log into your WordPress Admin panel, and go to the Chiropractor2Web Options page under Design.
Here, you can change the summary and the link for each of the feature boxes.
Just enter in a short summary that will pique the interest of your site visitors, and choose the page of your site that you would like to feature from the drop down.
That’s all there is to it! You can change which area of your site you want to feature at any time, by going back to the Chiropractor2Web Options panel in WordPress.
See the Chiropractor2Web Demo Site for a live example of how we customized the feature section, and let me know i fyou have any questions in the comments below!
Installing WordPress Quickly and Easily
November 15, 2008
Before you can use the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme you’ll need to have WordPress installed.
If you get your WordPress hosting from BlueHost, you can install WordPress very easily. I’ve got a short video that shows how to install WordPress in five minutes or less that walks you through it.
Installing WordPress In Five Minutes from Don Campbell on Vimeo.
Update: BlueHost is now recommending you use SimpleScripts instead of Fantastico for WordPress Installs. I’ve recorded a new video here – The Fastest Way to Install WordPress – Use SimpleScripts
Once you have WordPress installed, you can install the Chiropractic WordPress Theme and get your new chiropractic website up and running!
